'Fabricated!' NBC Sochi 'hack hysteria' exposed

‘The story was fabricated.’ Cyber security experts are calling out an NBC Sochi-hacker hit-job as a fabrication that, at best, made liberal use of assistance given to them by experts.

NBC news Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and security
expert Kyle Wilhoit claimed to prove how fresh computers were
hacked within 24 hours of operation in Russia. A theatrically
staged set-up featuring Moscow landmarks wrongly claimed to prove
the point Engel wanted to make – Your data is not safe in Sochi.

Engel provided few technical details on how exactly those
cyber-attacks happened, but suggested he had not initiated any
act before his phone was hacked.

But he had. He downloaded a hostile Android app.

Engel then tried to convince viewers that uninitiated hacks are
rampant in Russia. “American athletes and fans are entering a
minefield the moment they log in to the internet” he warned.
Untrue. In fact, almost impossible!

Security expert Robert Graham of errata looked at the package
aired on MSNBC and slammed it as "100 percent
fraudulent" and “wrong in every salient detail”.

Graham added a salient point to anyone deciphering the subtle
anti-Sochi spin saturating MSM as the Olympics open.

Wilhoit, the expert central to the NBC report, is currently is
writing a whitepaper on the technology featured, but has
clarified how his work was ‘edited’ to give a false impression.

@pyoor_ Was definitely
not uninitiated. That was part of the "tv magic". MD5's
forthcoming depending on Trend legal approval.